ProQR receives fast track designation from FDA for QR-421a for Usher Syndrome Type 2

ProQR Therapeutics

2 January 2019 - ProQR Therapeutics today announced that it received fast track designation from the FDA for QR-421a. 

QR-421a is a first-in-class investigational RNA-based oligonucleotide designed to address the underlying cause of the vision loss associated with Usher syndrome type 2 and non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa due to mutations in exon 13 of the USH2A gene.

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